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That's why I don't see the point of a super Joey over just adding a Hopper. Sent from my PantechP8010 using DBSTalk mobile app

Cost. Hoppers cost more than Joeys every month now. Of course this presumes the new Joey will cost the same as the old one.

Convenience. It can be confusing to navigate from one Hopper to the other in the List screen. But the UI goof is, when I watch something from Hopper 2 and it's over, hit 'Stop' and then "DVR", I'm returned to Hopper 1's list. If I'm looking for a particular episode of something, having to constantly switch back to Hopper 2 is a pain. (This is the way it works when you are linked to one Hopper but want to watch from the other - and switching what Hopper you're linked to isn't exactly intuitive).

One Hopper with an external drive pretty much gives me what I need, saves a little money and eliminates some of the more irrational parts of the UI.

A Hopper has 3 tuners... a dual node supports 2 Hoppers (6 tuners) and it requires 3 inputs from the Dish/switch.

So... a Hopper and a SuperJoey should have the same requirements BUT with one less tuner than a 2-Hopper installation.

Of course they could be planning on different node technology... and problems can be solved with DPP44 or similar switches to provide more feeds... but I don't see now that I think of it how to do this in a way that gets you anything but less tuners than you can get now.

Maybe that's not a deal-breaker... depending on how you use things... but some might scream over a "lost" tuner if they moved from a 2-Hopper to a Hopper + SuperJoey setup.

Just a note to this;

And interesting Stewart should mention the DPP44 here.

But as I was discussing on another forum, with a DPP44 switch, a duo node, and a satellite-OTA diplexer to separate the 950-2150 MHz satellite signals from the 650-875 MHz MoCA ones. A two Hopper setup could "theoretically" be used with a Super Joey on the same network by connecting the SJ to the fourth available output on a DPP44 feeding the three lines to a duo node by means the diplexer, and running a line from the diplexer's OTA port carrying the MoCA signal to an available client port either on the duo node itself or by deactivating a regular Joey and connecting the SJ there through the OTA dipelxer port, or at some other convenient point on the client side of the network.

Now whether the MoCA network capacity can accommodate all this traffic or if DISH will even allow such a setup is not known at this time of course.

This may sound like a stupid question, but do we even know at this point that the 2 additional tuners on the SuperJoey are even satelite tuners?

quote: ""SuperJoey," a client that adds two network tuners to the Hopper's native three tuners."

2 network tuners, wtf is a network tuner? A tuner that comes from the network or internet? or OTA broadcast network tuners? Just somethin thats goin thru my head...I know logically, only satelite tuners make sense but the wording leaves more info to be desired.

Also, this 'app' for the ps3, would that be exclusive to Hopper systems? Or could us 'regular' customers also enjoy that?

They are satellite tuners and from some reading here and there, it appears that a single TV install could be done with just a Super Joey for those not wanting/needing DVR capability, or at least that has been rumored to be something that could be done.

Essentially the Super Joey has a direct line from the LNBF that gets bridged to the MOCA network that the Hopper/Joey system works with. The Hopper 'sees' those tuners as part of itself. So the user sees 5 tuners and possibly wouldn't even know which one was on which box. Of course that seems to say to me that there would be a lot of traffic on the MOCA network.

Ok, this year may be the one that I switch to a Hopper. Right now I'm on a ViP622 that is several years old, and I am hoping to see more HD on TV2. I hope that long time customers get a decent upgrade deal. Anyone know what it might cost to upgrade to a Hopper + 1 Joey?

But my real question is related to the Wireless Joey. Sure looks like Morse code on the side of the WJ and the access point. Sort of like how Western Digital used to do the cooling slots on some of their external hard drives. Has anyone decoded the holes on the sides of the Wireless Joey to see if any interesting messages are there?

I tried a little but my ability to recognize Morse code is very limited.

I wonder about performance for the original Hopper. As it is, the original Hopper seems to have difficulty properly recording the OTA tuner while playing back another program. Can the system really handle 5 discreet tuners, or are they going to limit the SuperJoey to Hopper2 and above?

What I found interesting was the 802.11ac for the Wireless. That gives plenty of wireless bandwidth for Video and putting it on the 5Ghz band too. That will for the near future at least cut down interference from other wireless networks.

Yeah I like that too... putting it on a band with less crowd for the moment AND have its own WiFi network for Dish device communication that doesn't take up bandwidth on your home network. It's actually so good of an idea I can't believe it didn't come with the initial Hopper configuration since there had been rumors of the 922 originally intended to support a WiFi monitor before a lot of the 922 plans were apparently scrapped and went to the Hopper team for development.

It's just a really cool way around some problems that come up with installations and all the wires you normally would have to run.

To be fair... "product of the year" is often a product from a trade show demoed before release to the general public. The only time this has bothered me was once when I worked for a company who won such an award and the product never came out, ever! To me, that was bad...

But as long as the company comes out with the product, I'm ok with it.

In a perfect world, though, I would agree with you that such awards should be released products to win "of the year" awards...

Though, I hedge as I say that, because much of CES is product that isn't released yet... so almost every award/review they do is going to be on unreleased product.

I dont get it, why not build a super hopper with all the tuners in the one box? It would seem more versatile if they had done that. I wonder if a joey can use a tuner from a super joey.

Perhaps because it would cost DISH as much as a Genie costs DIRECTV even for those customers with just a few TVs that could typically survive with the way that DISH uses three tuners. Tuners are surely a large part of the cost pie and piling them on without needing them is a huge waste of money.

It seems like talk of the Home Media Center gave it modular tuners ("up to" six?).

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -- JFK

How can you vote on a "product of the year" award on something that the general public has never seen, heard of, used

And on top of that the Super Joey has not even been released yet?

I think that's a very fair question, and one that I've raised from time to time. But it happens _every_ year at the International CES, no matter the product category. A prototype and a spec sheet are all you need to win there.

Then later in the year, when your product is actually ready to sell, you take that CES award logo and apply it to your advertising and packaging. Everybody wins, especially the Consumer Electronics Association.

I dont get it, why not build a super hopper with all the tuners in the one box? It would seem more versatile if they had done that. I wonder if a joey can use a tuner from a super joey.

All the Joeys on a system with a Hopper + Super Joey will see all the tuners. They will appear as 5 tuners. What isn't known or yet talked about, is if the screen that would show that would just show 5 tuners or would show them as 3 on the Hopper and 2 on the Super Joey. Since they are on the network I don't think it would matter how they show them, just how seamless it all works.

All the Joeys on a system with a Hopper + Super Joey will see all the tuners. They will appear as 5 tuners. What isn't known or yet talked about, is if the screen that would show that would just show 5 tuners or would show them as 3 on the Hopper and 2 on the Super Joey. Since they are on the network I don't think it would matter how they show them, just how seamless it all works.

In this video Vivek Khemka demonstrates the SJ showing the 5 tuners showing on one screen, one of which is split into the four major networks.

by BobaBird's CES who is gathered info and posted at www.dishuser.org/superjoey.php, the new SJ will be feed by one cable, what will share MOCA and IFs for two tunes (easy to suggest it will be 950...1450 and 1650...2150 MHz bands) by adding an integrator;

it was described as being similar to a separator but working in reverse merging satellite and moca signals onto the line to a super Joey

by BobaBird's CES who is gathered info and posted at www.dishuser.org/superjoey.php, the new SJ will be feed by one cable, what will share MOCA and IFs for two tunes (easy to suggest it will be 950...1450 and 1650...2150 MHz bands) by adding an integrator;

"Integrator"

Or that is to say a fancy word for what is likely just a Satellite-OTA diplexer to separate or combine (depending on whether one is looking away or toward the SJ) the 950-2150 MHz range sat. signal from the 675-850 MHz range MoCA one.